REALLY REALLY from the desk of Pete Yates

My friend Pete Yates comments on Palin's complaint's of attacks on her personality....

I'm in red and Pete is in blue...He's better at this than I am. Together with the background of white we're red, white and blue.
*grin*

Caribou Barbie: Pull her string and you hear her say, "Campaigning is hard!"
Palin calls attacks 'cruel' and 'cowardly'

"Trust me, I know cruel and cowardly after the campaign I ran," said Palin.

(CNN) -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called former aides of Sen. John McCain "jerks" for circulating unflattering stories about her since the Republican ticket lost its bid for the White House Tuesday.

Then the string got caught on the way back into her back.

The stories, which have been attributed to unnamed sources within the McCain campaign, include claims that Palin did not know Africa was a continent instead of a country, or which countries are part of the North American Free Trade Agreement, despite touting her familiarity with neighboring Canada.

Hey man, they both have snow....Right?

Governor Palin defended her lack of knowledge about NAFTA, saying "It's not like any of those NAFTA countries are as close as Russia or anything!" She also said she needed to get her hearing checked, as she had "misheard 'Africa' as 'Armenia,' which is, of course one of the countries in Africa."

Speaking with CNN's Gary Tuchman after returning to Alaska, Palin speculated those stories may have originated with campaign staffers who helped her prepare for her debate with Democratic Vice President-elect Joe Biden.

"Those were taken out of context and that's cruel," Palin said. "It's mean-spirited. It's immature. It's unprofessional and those guys are jerks if they came away with it, taking things out of context, and then tried to spread something on national news." Governor Palin then blamed it all on Katie Couric.

One source involved in preparing Palin for interviews and the vice-presidential debate told CNN "she had not paid attention to a single policy debate that's gone on in this country for 10 years."

She has better things to do, like learn how to be snarky and petty and a little high school bitchy.

Palin told Tuchman she remembers having conversations about NAFTA and Africa during her preparations, but that the stories about her "are not true." She said it was "cowardly" for staffers to make claims about her anonymously.

"It's been MUCH longer than ten years since I paid attention to a policy debate! Those are really boring!"

"It's not fair and it's not right."

Two McCain sources said they were furious about Palin's supposed call Saturday with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, which turned out to be a prank by two radio DJs.

A source close to Palin told CNN that she had prepared to deliver a concession speech Tuesday night, and expected to address the crowd at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix, Arizona.

Several sources told CNN that McCain senior adviser Steve Schmidt told Palin no, in part because of built-up anger among some McCain aides who say Palin had become more interested in her own future than in McCain's election. Beside that, they told her, "Oops!" was really not that much of a concession speech.

....and trying to be "way adorable" would just anger the crowd into murderous violence.

There have also been reports of a somewhat distant relationship between McCain and his running mate. Reports of Palin referring to Senator McCain as the "Cadaver in Chief" were supposedly the genesis of the ill feelings.

That and the whole episode with the smearing of the Icy hot on his toilet seat in his plane....

"This is so unfortunate and, quite honestly, sickening," Palin aide Meghan Stapleton said Thursday in a written statement.

"The accusations we are hearing and reading are not true, and since we deny all these anonymous allegations, there is nothing specific to which we will respond.

"We have the highest regards for Sen. John McCain. Gov. Palin was honored to be chosen as McCain's running mate. And as governor of Alaska, Gov. Palin looks forward to working with President-elect Obama on securing energy independence for America."

On Election Day, Palin denied there was tension. Once back in Alaska, she said she would not respond to individual accusations.

"I won't comment on anyone's gossip or allegations that are based on anonymous sources," she said. "That's kind of a small, evidently bitter type of person, who would anonymously charge something foolish like that -- that I perhaps didn't know an answer to a question. So until I know who was talking about it, I won't have a comment on false allegations. At least I had balls enough to stand up and make my false allegations about Barack Obama in front of God and everybody!"

"Yeah, and by the way can someone get me a diet Dr.Pepper....And a Gucci bag?"

In response to the allegations that she was ill-prepared for interviews and debate, Randy Scheunemann, an aide assigned to Palin, called her "brilliant" and said she has a "photographic memory." Unfortunately, that statement referred to Polaroid photos, and she had no way to wave her memory in the air in order to get it to develop more quickly.

When asked about this Palin responded, "Huh?"

Despite the acrimony, many McCain aides say they are sad the campaign team dissolved so quickly.

"I was really hoping to tap that ass, after she came out in just the towel that one time" said a McCain staffer.

("Ass" as in "a horses ass" right?) Rocksolidredhead
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Look! A shiny thing in the distance! *Runs off!*